This’n’That; August Thirtieth #2; Rush For Fun!

Ya Gotta Check From Time-To-Time!
    If you don’t check Rush Limbaugh‘s website for the articles, at least check it for the illustrations.  Some are ‘a real hoot,’ like this one:

“The Election IS A Refrendum on obama;” August 29-30, 2012

or this one:

obama Denegrating Governor Romney in Iowa with Impunity; August 29-30, 2012

and this, one of Rush’s Pearls of Wisdom:

August 29-30, 2012

 and this ‘pearl:’

August 28, 21012

or this one:

“Ronaldus-Magnus” speaking at the 1980 RepublicRAT Convention

as well as Dennis Miller ‘schooling’ Jay Leno on obama‘s “War on Women.”
    Not only a lot of information, a lot of entertainment!!
Til Nex’Time….

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This’n’That; August First #1; Soon!!

Let ‘The Downfall‘ Continue!
    One of the best things about today….??
There’s but 96 days, 16 hours, 45 minutes until the polls close on the most disasterous landslide victory since President Ronald “Ronaldus-Magnus” Reagan‘s 47 state (by “Clown Prince” obama‘s count: 56 state) drubbing of Walter F. Mondale.  The re-election of President Reagan was a clear indication that the country as a whole, supported his efforts in bringing us back from the depths of the Jimmuh Cahtuh Depression.
    The 1984 general election results by county:


RED: President Reagan; Blue: Walter Mondale

One thing to remember on November 6th–as is said in obama‘s Chicago–“Vote early, vote often!“ Til Nex’Time….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1984
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landslide_victories

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"Clown Prince" Weekly Blather; July 14th

A Patriotic Response To The “Clown Prince;” 07/14/2012
barackingham Palace,
District of Corruption
July 14, 2012
    Over the past couple weeks I’ve been talking with folks across the country about how we’re going to rebuild an economy where if you work hard, you and your family can get ahead.  And right now, there’s a big debate going on in Washington over two fundamentally different paths we can take as a country to do that.
One path – pushed by Republicans in Congress and their nominee for President – says that the best way to create prosperity is to let it trickle down from the top. They believe that if we spend trillions more on tax cuts for the wealthy, it’ll somehow create jobs – even if we have to pay for it by gutting education and training and by raising middle-class taxes. I think they’re wrong. We already tried it that way for most of the last decade, and it didn’t work. We’re still paying for trillions of dollars in tax cuts that benefitted the wealthiest Americans more than anyone else; tax cuts that didn’t lead to the rise in wages and middle class jobs that we were promised; and that helped take us from record surpluses to record deficits. The last thing we need right now is more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class; that will help create jobs, make education and training more affordable, and encourage businesses to start up and stay right here in the United States.
[What I’m not telling you: To open this week’s blather event, I’d like to commend Ms Stephanie Cutter.  Ms Cutter has proven a far more prolific liar than even I, your exalted ruler!!   Ms Cutter‘s the one who dreamed up and brought to the fore, these lies implicating Governor Romney in some shady doings with regard to the governor’s employment at Bain Capital and some SEC filings that weren’t necessary–he wasn’t employed by Bain Capital at the time in question. I intend to see that the obama Re-immaculation Campaign Finance Committee rewards her handsomely–under the table of course, we don’t want her to pay out 60% of it in federal, state and local taxes–for her efforts in this obfuscation.  When I asked the “Dirt-and-Mud” Committee to come up with something–anything–on my opponent that would ‘stick-to-the-wall,’ Ms Cutter came through like the Marxist socialist I know her to be!  So congratulations to her; when you see her in the ‘hollered-halls’ here at barackingham Palace, be sure to express your thanks as well!! 
    Now that I’ve covered the only highlight of the week, on to the more dismal aspects of this re-immaculation effort.  Because The Bilderberg Group has absolutely nothing positive on which to run this re-immaculation campaign, we’re attacking the evils of republicanism: like an evil lower unemployment rate, like an evil lower inflation rate, like evil higher jobs creation numbers, like evil higher GDP rates.  The ‘king-on-high’ of republicanism is President Ronald “Ronaldus-Magnus” Reagan.  Let’s have a look at the net results of his ‘trickle-down’ economics The Bilderbergers continue to insist I vilify at every turn:
Unemployment rates-at the end of the Jimmuh Cahtah era: 7.5%, as compared to President Reagan‘s eighth-year result of 5.4%, (your exalted ruler: from 10.4% all the way down to 8.2%!!) and 
Inflation rates-at the end of the Jimmuh Cahtah era: 12.5%, as compared to President Reagan‘s 4.4% (your exalted ruler: 2011 inflation rate of 8%!!),and 
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) rates-To his credit Jimmuh Cahtah raised the GDP a full 30% during his disasterous four-year reign.  President Reagan—during his eight-year administration–essentially DOUBLED the GDP, from $2.76 Trillion (January, 1981) to $5.06 Trillion (January, 1989); (your exalted ruler: 2012Q1 GDP grew at a ‘less-than-dismal- 2.2%!!). These factoids make The Bilderberg Group‘s campaign efforts–if not a mega-disaster–truly an uphill battle.  How can the Bilderbergers compare me (a former union picnic organizer) with Jimmuh Cahtah (a small business owner; a degreed Naval Academy graduate working with submarine nuclear propulsion technology) or–Heaven forbid–“Ronaldus-Magnus” (a successful businessman, a successful governor, a degree in economics and sociology, AND a successful president) ?!?]
    Soon, we’ll face a choice between these two different approaches. On January 1st, taxes are set to go up for tens of millions of Americans. I think that would be a huge financial hit for middle-class families. That’s why I’ve cut middle-class taxes every year that I’ve been President – by $3,600 for the typical family. And that’s why, this week, I called on Congress to immediately stop the January 1st tax hike from hitting any American on the first $250,000 of their income. Under my plan, 98% of American families won’t see their income taxes go up at all. But the other 2% of Americans will have to pay a little more in taxes on anything they make over $250,000. In other words, the wealthiest few Americans will go back to the income tax rates they were paying under Bill Clinton. And if you remember, that was when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and millionaires were doing pretty well. The folks in Congress and on the campaign trail who oppose this plan warn that it would somehow hurt small businesses and job creators. Well, they’re completely ignoring the facts.
[What I’m not telling you: I think The Bilderberg Group is wrong!  Rather than continue to use my blatant lies as well as those of the Stephanie Cutter ilk, we should do and say anything that will start the economy, the jobs creation numbers as well as the continued dificit spending down each’s correct path to get re-immaculated!! And then–once I’m re-immaculated—The Bilderberg Group can lay out a plan for my obama Regime II to continue my first term economic and societal destruction but in a grander, more forceful manner!! 
Blatant Lie #1:  I DID NOT CUT TAXES each year of my reign; I merely extended those evil President George W. Bush tax rates!
Blantant Lie #2:  Those family incomes above about $145,000 will see significant tax increases!
Blantant Lie #3:  My tax plans will have disasterous affect on the overall economy.  With the smiall business owners subjected to vastly greater confiscatory tax rates there will be no industrial, manufacturing or general commercial growth. Those confiscatory tax rates are sure to increase unemployment to levels not seen since the Roosevelt Depression!
Blatant Lie #4:  The 2% that I’ll tax into oblivion account for 53% of all small business profits!  The same 2% account for 54% of all jobs created on a month-by-month basis!
Blatant Lie #5: $250,000 in annual income=millionaire status!]
    Under my plan, 97% of small business owners would avoid getting hit with any income tax hike whatsoever. In fact, I’ve cut taxes for small businesses eighteen times since I’ve been President. And just this week, I ordered a series of new steps to help our small businesses grow and hire. The only place we disagree is whether we keep giving tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% of Americans. Republicans in Washington want more of those tax cuts. With the deficit we have, I don’t think we can afford them.
But even if we disagree on the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, we all agree that no American should pay more taxes on the first $250,000 of their income. So let’s at least agree to do what we all agree on. That’s what compromise is all about. Let’s not hold the vast majority of Americans and our entire economy hostage while we debate the merits of another tax cut for the wealthy. Let’s skip the unnecessary drama, the needless delays and all the partisan posturing and let’s just do the right thing for the people who sent us here to serve. And I’m going to keep fighting to make sure we rebuild an economy that rewards work, grows the middle class, and gives new opportunity to those trying to earn their way into the middle class.
[What I’m not telling you:  In conclusion: You, me, The Bilderberg Group, the national pamphleteers, the conservative pundits, the Marxist pundits can all discuss the merits and detriments of my economic, societal, domestic, foreign, defense–et al–policies til we’re “blue-in-the-face!”  Our Marxist dialog as well as The Bilderberg Group‘s Marxist plans and strategies, are hard-pressed to compete with the impressive results compiled by the “Ronaldus-Magnus” eight-year ‘Reign of Prosperity!!’]

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This’n’That; June Twenty-Ninth #2; Cooler Heads

In The Wake Of The obama Tax Law Approval
    Now is not the time to go off half-cocked.  The cooler heads in the Republican party must prevail.  Let “Clown Prince” obama ‘spike-the-ball‘ all he wants.  Let “Clown Prince” obama take all the ‘victory laps‘ he wants.   While said “Clown” is concentrating on his narcissistic image among the various peoples of the United States, the Republicans can take that free time to formulate a specific plan to combat the obama Tax Law.

    Governor Romney needs to realize that the recent actions of the Supreme Court were not about ‘healthcare’ in any shape, form or manner.  As evidenced in the tax increase of $11,000 to $14,000 on the average family-of-four by 2016, wealth re-distribution has been the primary, the only objective of the Bilderberg Group—obama‘s chief political benefactors.
    The Republican hierarchy in the House will bode well to co-ordinate with the Romney Campaign to formulate a platform and a cohesive message, going forward.  No longer will the blanket statement of ‘repeal-and-replace’ be an effective message going on to election day, a mere 130 days from today!
Some suggestions the Romney Campaign Team might consider:

1.  Rather than wait until the last few days running up to the Republican National Convention to name a running-mate, complete the vetting process on the top contenders and choose one to immediately go ‘on-the-stump.’  This would give the Republican campaign the advantage of having two to spread the message, one of them NOT being joe biden, who necessarily talks around the-foot-in-his-mouth!
2.  Formulate specifics on each plank in the Republican Presidential Campaign platform.  The time for ‘blanket statements’ is over; the American voter needs–and wants–to hear specifics that will positively change his or her life going forward beyond a Republican win in November.
3.  Campaign NOT on a faulty, socialist national healthcare law, but on the upcoming massive individual tax increase–the likes of which has never before seen on earth!!
4.  The campaign would bode well to review both “Ronaldus-Magnus” presidential campaigns, concentrating on Mr Reagan‘s 49-state (in obama‘s mind: a 56-state) landslide.  The Romney Presidential Campaign is practically a mirror-image of the Reagan first campaign; Governor Reagan was campaigning against an incompetent, inept peanut farmer in Jimmuh Cahtah, while Governor Romney is campaigning against an incompetent, inept street agitator in “Clown Prince” obama!!
5.  The Supreme Court approval of the obama Tax Law will re-energize the “Tea Party” Movement with even more power and energy than said movement demonstrated in the months running up to the successful 2010 mid-term elections!  This faithful, conservative, well-focused group is there for the Romney campaign to re-energize, re-direct and put toward a successful campaign and election.

Just a few suggestions!  I’m sure greater-minds than I can come up with even more, even greater suggestions!!
‘Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!
Til Nex’Time….

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This’n’That; June Twenty-Eighth #2; "Ronaldus-Magnus"

From President Ronald Reagan’s Diaries
Today (June 28) in each year of President Reagan‘s second term:
1985
Friday, June 28:
    Yesterday we lost in the Judiciary Committee.  Brad Reynolds nomination (by me) to be the No. 3 man at Justice was rejected.  They even refused to pass it out to the floor with a no pass recommendation because of their fear the whole Sen. would do what they were unwilling to do–approve him. & they couldn’t have done what the did without the help of 2 Repubs. Sens. Spector and Mathias.  Well there are 2 Sens. I won’t have to help campaign.
    [Flew to Chicago; visited school with local officials; met families of hostages and of kidnap victim; speech on tax reform; returned to Washington; National Security Planning Group (NSPG) meeting; received indications that hostages might be moved to Damascus the following day; noted, “We also launched a plan to strike by air a guerilla base connected with the muderers of our 4 Marines.”]
1986
Thursday, June 26-Monday, June 30:
    For the 1st time this year the weather was beautiful each and every day.  We rode every morning, then Barney [Willard Barnett, fmr CHP; close friend, confidant and ‘ranch hand’], Dennis [LeBlanc; fmr CHP; part of Governor Reagan’s security detail and ‘ranch hand’] and I cut up some downed trees.  On Sun. we learned of Sen. East’s suicide–a sad time for all of us.  Now it is Mon. night and we are back at the White House.
1987
Sunday, June 28:
[Returned to W.H.; attended televised performance honoring Cole Porter and starring June Allyson, Patti Austin, Kaye Ballard, and Mel Torme’; telephoned Wasserman, surgery went well; received word that Paul Nitze’s wife died.]
1988
Tuesday, June 28:
[Staff meeting on pending legislation; approved appointments.]
    NSC–I brought up the matter of Holocaust Museum.  It seems someone has approved a room dedicated to 1915 massacre of some Armenians by the Turks.  I’m against it but don’t know what we can do.  Latest intelligence has 10 more divisions on the border in N. Korea than we had estimated.  They’re playing games that may threaten the Olympics in S. Korea.  We have the Soviets pledge they won’t let anything like that happen. [….] a bomb plot in Panama City–an apartment bldg. housing about 40 of our mil. officers.  They’ve been moved out and on to the base.
    Met with our Sen. and Cong. leadership–Dole and Simpson, Bob Michel and Trent Lott.  A discussion of pending bills and the pol. games the Dems. are playing trying to get campaign issues.  Then a meeting with Meese and Carlucci regarding the investigation of the Pentagon.  Nothing much yet to report.
[Interviewed by biographer Edmund Morris; meeting with Israeli defense minister Yitzhak Rabin; went to dentist for teeth cleaning; received report on Conference for a Drug Free America; photos with GOP candidates; received allergy show and, as noted, “a little doctoring of my hearing aid.”]
Til Nex’Time….

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This’n’That; June Twenty-Seventh #2; "Ronaldus-Magnus"

From President Ronald Reagan’s Diaries
    Today (June 27) in each year of President Reagan‘s first term:
1981
Wednesday, June 24-Monday June 29:
[Addressed National Jaycees Convention in San Antonio; Flew to L.A. and Century Plaza Hotel; made calls necessary before the following day’s congressional vote on budget.]
    There I was in Calif. and never left the hotel room except for a speech next day (noon) in the hotel dining room.  Just before going down learned we had won the 1st big vote.  It meant some quick changes in the speech.  Back to the room for an afternoon on the phone.  We won the next two votes and the victory was ours.
    Finally Fri. about 11 A.M. got out of the hotel and on to the ranch.  The weather was beautiful and so was Rancho del Cielo.  Patti [daughter, Davis {changed fr Reagan}] arrived Sat. morning.  We all rode in the A.M.  After lunch Geo. and Barbara Bush came up to brief me on European trip on their way to the Marcos’ Inaugural in Manilla.
[Relaxed  at the ranch, Monday, June 29: flew to Denver to address convention of the NAACP.  Returned to Washington.]
1982
Saturday, June 26-Sunday, June 27:
    Good weather–2 morning rides.  Ed M.[Meese, Att’y General], Jim B.[Baker III, Chief of Staff to the President], and Bill C. [Casey, Dir., Central Intelligence] helicoptered up with Mr and Mrs. George Shultz who had just arrived by Concorde from London.  We had a good working lunch.  I think things are going to work out find  Al [Haig, resigning Sec’y of State] will stay on for the transition.
    Sun. before leaving C. D. Bill and Bud McFarland called.  The Israeli cabinet has submitted a new idea.  Calls for a Lebanese army to disarm the P.L.O. in Beirut.  All of the armed P.L.O. will then be sent out of Lebanon to Syria.  The odd note was the Israeli call then for the U.S. to join in the negotiations with the P.L.O.  Heretofore, we have refused to do any talking to the P.L.O. until and unless they agreed to recognize Israel’s right to exit [exist?], which they’ve never done.  We’re having about 30 people in for dinner at the W.H. and then running Spielberg’s movie, “E.T.”
1983
Monday, June 27:
    Nancy left this A.M. for Phoenix.  I won’t see her unitl Wed. night–or is it Thurs. night–I’ll have to check.  Anyway I still don’t like this place without her.
    Met with Cardinal Krol who has returned from being with the Pope in Poland.  He believes there may well be some easing.  I believe also that Walesa may not be as much of a force as he once was.
[Photo session; issues lunch; videotapings; rehearsal for press conference.]
1984
Wednesday, June 27:
    Staff and NSC meetings.  Jesse Jackson off on his own diplomatic mission to Cuba, Nicaragua and other points Sout has tried to reach me by phone.  That is a call I’m not taking.  We have put Under Sec. of State Armacost on the phone at this end. J.J. has us on some pretty thin ice with his adventuring.  Commander Eric Liu (W.H. Staff Dr.), his wife and baby boy came by for a pic.  He’s being assigned to Bethesda Naval hosp.  He’s a good man.
    Met with 3 Gov’s. from Midwest on farm problems.  Between Tornadoes and Floods. agriculture is having a rough time.  But worse than nature is what reduced inflation has done.  Land prices when out of sight during the high inflation of the 70’s and 1980.  farmers borrowed using their land as collateral.  Now that sanity has returned to the market they are faced with big credit problems. 
    After lunch Geo. S. [Shultz-Sec’y of State] came in to report on our Ambassador to Central America and his meeting in Nicaragua.
[Addressed Conference on U.S./Soviet exchange; also National Association of Minority Contractors; meeting with Eureka boosters on college’s financial problems.]
Until Nex’Time….

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This’n’That; June Fourteenth #2; More ‘Diaries’ (O’Connor)

The Reagan Diaries
    To the reader it should be blatantly obvious that “Ronaldus-Magnus” is by far, my favorite American president.  Arguably the best, most effective president of the twenty- and twenty-first centuries!  Diametrically opposed–both in thought, word and deed–to the “Clown” we have now, President Reagan firstly, lastly and always thought about the country and the affects his decisions had on it’s ‘health,’ welfare, growth, etc.  To that end, Mr Reagan never wanted to be “the first president to…;” at the end of the day, he only wanted what was best for the country.
    As my reading of “The Reagan Diaries” continues–time permitting–I’ve found entries about the possible selection and Senate confirmation of Mrs Sandra Day O’Connor as the first female Supreme Court Justice:

Monday, June 22  “Bill Smith {William French Smith, Mr Reagan‘s Attorney General, 1981-’85} came in on the Sup. Ct.  I believe if the check up goes well we should go with the lady in Ariz. to replace Potter Stewart to the Supreme Ct.”
Tuesday, July 7  “This morning I announced my nominee for Supreme Court, Mrs. O’Connor of Ariz.  I made some calls because someone has started a bonfire among the Right to Life people.  Apparently it all started with a woman–Dr. Gersten in Phoenix.  Her claims don’t match the record we have of O’Connor‘s voting record when she was a state Sen.  But she’s spread her message far & wide.  A full Cabinet meeting on the Ft. Chafee problem (Cubans–criminal & mentally deranged dumped on us by Castro).  We believe we can move them to an unused mil. base in Maryland which can be developed also as a holding area for legitimate refugees in the future.”

    President Reagan was far less concerned about Justice O’Connor being the first woman on the Supreme Court; less concerned about himself being the first president to nominate a woman for that position, than about what–and who–would be the best choice for the needs and requirements of the country as a whole.
Note:  Those “{….}” indicate that I added information to supplement and possibly clarify Mr Reagan‘s diary entries.
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This’n’That; June Twelfth #2; Diaries (Assassination Attempt)

Again, Another Great Book ‘On The Cheap’
    As is the norm, when the “Young Miss Lovely” is off to what ever clothes shop she needs at the moment, I spend an hour or two at the local Barnes and Noble bookstore.  Last Sunday was no exception.  I found at least a dozen books I’d like to have but settled on one: “The Reagan Diaries,” edited by Douglas Brinkley.  It was on one of the store’s ‘cheap’ tables; I paid but $5.98, originally priced at $19.99.  This book received glowing reviews from such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Los Angeles Magazine, The Oklahoman, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Times [of London] Literary Supplement, and The Washington Post, among others.  
    Most entries in this book are correct and complete quotes from the original diaries, others are in brackets ( “[-]”) which indicate they are the editor’s summaries of less important information.  So far, I’m through page 27 and already I’ve found about a dozen entries worthy of quote, like:

“Monday, March 30  My day to address the Bldg. & Const. Trades Nat. Conf. A.F.L.-C.I.O. at the Hilton Ballroom-2 P.M.  Was all dressed to go & for some reason at the last min. took off my really good wrist watch & wore an older one.
    Left the hotel at the usual side entrance and headed for the car–suddenly there was a burst of gun fire from the left.  S.S. Agent pushed me onto the floor of the car & jumped on top.  I felt a blow in my upper back that was unbelievably painful.  I was sure he’d broken my rib.  The car took off.  I sat up on the edge of the seat almost paralyzed by pain.  Then I began coughing up blood which made both of us think–yes I had a broken rib & it had punctured a lung.  He switched orders from W.H. to Geo. Wash. U. Hosp.
    By the time we arrived I was having great trouble getting enough air.  We did not know that Tim McCarthy (S.S.) had been shot in the chest, Jim Brady in the Head & a policeman Tom Delahanty in the neck.
    I walked into the emergency room and was hoisted onto a cart where I was stripped of my closthes.  It was then we learned I’d been shot & had a bullet in my lung.
    Gettin shot hurts.  Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breathe it seemed I was getting less & less air.  I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed.  But I realized I couldn’t ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me.  Isn’t that the meaning of the lost sheep?  We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him.  I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold.
    I opened my eyes once to find Nancy there.  I pray I’ll never face a day when she isn’t there.  Of all the ways God has blessed me giving her to mie is the greatest and beyond anything I can ever hope to deserve.
    All the kids arrived and the hours ran together in a blur during which I was operated on.  I know it’s going to be a long recovery but there has been such anoutpouring of love from all over.
    The days of therapy, transfusion, intravenous etc. have gone by–now it is Sat. April 11 and this morning I left the hospital and am here at the W.H. with Nancy & Patti.  The treatment, the warmth, the skill of those at G.W. has been magnificent but it’s great to be here at home.
    Whatever happens now I owe my life to Go and will try to serve him in every way I can.”

    This was written in President Reagan‘s own hand after the assassination attempt.  “Ronaldus-Magnus” was one of only two or three presidents who kept diaries throughout their administrations.  I’ll try to do other quotes as time goes on….
Til Nex’Time….

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This’n’That; June Twelfth #2; Diaries (Assassination Attempt)

Again, Another Great Book ‘On The Cheap’
    As is the norm, when the “Young Miss Lovely” is off to what ever clothes shop she needs at the moment, I spend an hour or two at the local Barnes and Noble bookstore.  Last Sunday was no exception.  I found at least a dozen books I’d like to have but settled on one: “The Reagan Diaries,” edited by Douglas Brinkley.  It was on one of the store’s ‘cheap’ tables; I paid but $5.98, originally priced at $19.99.  This book received glowing reviews from such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Los Angeles Magazine, The Oklahoman, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Times [of London] Literary Supplement, and The Washington Post, among others.  
    Most entries in this book are correct and complete quotes from the original diaries, others are in brackets ( “[-]”) which indicate they are the editor’s summaries of less important information.  So far, I’m through page 27 and already I’ve found about a dozen entries worthy of quote, like:

“Monday, March 30  My day to address the Bldg. & Const. Trades Nat. Conf. A.F.L.-C.I.O. at the Hilton Ballroom-2 P.M.  Was all dressed to go & for some reason at the last min. took off my really good wrist watch & wore an older one.
    Left the hotel at the usual side entrance and headed for the car–suddenly there was a burst of gun fire from the left.  S.S. Agent pushed me onto the floor of the car & jumped on top.  I felt a blow in my upper back that was unbelievably painful.  I was sure he’d broken my rib.  The car took off.  I sat up on the edge of the seat almost paralyzed by pain.  Then I began coughing up blood which made both of us think–yes I had a broken rib & it had punctured a lung.  He switched orders from W.H. to Geo. Wash. U. Hosp.
    By the time we arrived I was having great trouble getting enough air.  We did not know that Tim McCarthy (S.S.) had been shot in the chest, Jim Brady in the Head & a policeman Tom Delahanty in the neck.
    I walked into the emergency room and was hoisted onto a cart where I was stripped of my closthes.  It was then we learned I’d been shot & had a bullet in my lung.
    Gettin shot hurts.  Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breathe it seemed I was getting less & less air.  I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed.  But I realized I couldn’t ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me.  Isn’t that the meaning of the lost sheep?  We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him.  I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold.
    I opened my eyes once to find Nancy there.  I pray I’ll never face a day when she isn’t there.  Of all the ways God has blessed me giving her to mie is the greatest and beyond anything I can ever hope to deserve.
    All the kids arrived and the hours ran together in a blur during which I was operated on.  I know it’s going to be a long recovery but there has been such anoutpouring of love from all over.
    The days of therapy, transfusion, intravenous etc. have gone by–now it is Sat. April 11 and this morning I left the hospital and am here at the W.H. with Nancy & Patti.  The treatment, the warmth, the skill of those at G.W. has been magnificent but it’s great to be here at home.
    Whatever happens now I owe my life to Go and will try to serve him in every way I can.”

    This was written in President Reagan‘s own hand after the assassination attempt.  “Ronaldus-Magnus” was one of only two or three presidents who kept diaries throughout their administrations.  I’ll try to do other quotes as time goes on….
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This’n’That; May Twenty-Second #2; Important Quotes

From Ronald W. Reagan:
    ….as ‘citizen‘ Ronald W. Reagan (1911-January 2, 1967):
Mister Ronald Reagan‘s remarks at the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, Phoenix, Az., March 30, 1961:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Mister Ronald Reagan‘s remarks from “A Time for Choosing;” in support of the Barry Goldwater presidential candidacy, October 27, 1964:
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right.  There is only an up or down–up to a man’s age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order–or down t the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
Mister Ronald Reagan from the same speech:
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.  We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.  If we fail, at least let our children and and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here.  We did all that could be done.
    ….as the 33rd Governor, State of California (1967-1975):
Governor Reagan‘s remarks to the American Trucking Association Board of Directors, San Francisco, Ca., October 6, 1974:
When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt.  When government does it, it sends you the bill.  And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways:  higher taxes and inflation.
Governor Reagan‘s Second Inaugural Address as Governor of California, Sacramento, Ca., January 4, 1971:
When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can–and often will–do too much.
Governor Reagan‘s Interview with Radio News West, Los Angeles, Ca., December 30, 1974:
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
Governor Reagan‘s remarks at a political reception, Chicago, Il., September 10, 1974:
The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom.  We must never forget…. in the final analysis….that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.
Governor Reagan‘s remarks at a “Meet the Students” television taping, Sacramento, Ca., September 17, 1973:
One thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee…. was a nation governed by professional politicians who had a vested interest in getting reelected.  They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then looking…. forward to getting back to the farm.
    ….as the 40th President of the United States of America (1981-1989):
President Reagan‘s first Inaugural Address, U.S. Capitol, January 20,1981:
We hear much of special interest groups.  Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected.  It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we’re sick–professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers.  They are, in short, “We the people,” this breed called Americans.
President Reagan‘s remarks at a presidential news conference, The White House, January 29, 1981:
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper.  The people are the government.  What we create we ought to be able to control.
President Reagan‘s remarks at a Spirit of America rally, Atlanta, Ga., January 26, 1984:
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
President Reagan‘s remarks during a national radio address on economic growth, The White House, January 26, 1985:
We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems.
President Reagan‘s remarks to the faculty and students, St. John’s University, New York, N.Y.,  March 28, 1985:
….I hope that when you’re my age, you’ll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.
President Reagan‘s Address to the Nation, The White House, January 16, 1984: 
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
President Reagan‘s remarks to students at the Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, May 31, 1988:
Every once in a while, somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say “stop what you’re doing.”
President Reagan‘s final speech as president; his Farewell Address to the Nation from the Oval Office, January 11, 1989:
We’ve done our part.  And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America wh for eight years did the work that brought America back.  My friends: We did it.  We weren’t just marking time.  We made a difference.  We made the city stronger.  We made the city freer, and we left her in good hands.  All in all, not bad, not bad at all.
President Reagan‘s remarks to the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York, N.Y., September 22, 1986:
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
    ….as an elder-statesman (1989-June 5, 2004):
Former President Reagan‘s remarks at the Republican National Convention, Houston, Tx., August 17, 1992 (the ‘….shining city….’ speech):
My fondest hope for each one of you–and especially for the young people here–is that you will love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.  May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will make the world a little better for your having been here.  May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.  Andy finally, my fellow Americans, may ever dawn be a great new beginning for America and every evening bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.
Former President Reagan, from the same speech:
And whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears, to your confidence rather than your doubts.
Former President Reagan‘s remarks at a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, The White House, January 13, 1993:
Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era.  But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning.  For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.
Former President Reagan‘s remarks to the Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge, England, December 5, 1990:
A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough.
Former President Reagan‘s remarks at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Ia., August 8, 1992:
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Former President Reagan‘s remarks to the Captive Nations Week Conference, Los Angeles, Ca., July 15, 1991:
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind.  Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few.  It is the universal right of all God’s children.
    Every president, every senator, every representative has a corps of speech-writers.  While ‘citizen’ Reagan, Governor Reagan, President Reagan, and Former President Reagan was no different in that respect, he many times wrote his own remarks in their entirety. Nearly every speech “Ronaldus-Magnus” gave was personally edited by him.  A far cry from the blusterful blather of today’s professional and amateur politicians; today’s teleprompter-readers at every level; in every political sub-division!
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